I'm trying to write a nested bash script that executes a bash command on another server using ssh.

Basically I'm doing this.

#/usr/bin/ssh -l user command\ logout

Now that works just fine until I start getting more advanced into bash scripting.

what I would LIKE to run on that server is

for i in `ls folder`; do cat folder/$i && echo '----'; done;

basically outputs the contents of everthing in a folder seperated by ----

if I try to run it as I normally would above, it tries to run the bash script locally. I've tried just about everything I can think of as far as using quotes to block portions off using backticks to seperate the ;'s and `'s out etc. If anyone knows how to do this, I could use some direction.

Thanks

Hi,

You need some additional quoting:

ssh -l user system 'for i in `ls folder`; do cat folder/$i && echo "----"; done'

Everything between the single quotes is send to the remote host and is not first expanded locally.

Hope this helps.